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The Bonfire of the Vanities

Tom Hanks (Actor), Bruce Willis (Actor), Brian De Palma (Director, Producer) Rated:

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Genre	Comedy
Format	Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Multiple Formats, Widescreen, NTSC, Full Screen
Contributor	Fred C. Caruso, Kevin Dunn, Jon Peters, Melanie Griffith, Monica Goldstein, Louis Giambalvo, Clifton James, Bruce Willis, Michael Cristofer, Barton Heyman, Tom Hanks, Chris F. Woods, Tom Wolfe, Morgan Freeman, Brian De Palma, Norman Parker, Saul Rubinek, John Hancock, Kim Cattrall See more
Language	English, French
Runtime	2 hours and 5 minutes

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Satire on the greed of the 80's. A Wall Street bondsman and his mistress become involved with a scheming journalist when they take a wrong turn one night.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 1-JUN-2004
Media Type: DVD

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.38 x 0.6 inches; 3.2 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Brian De Palma
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Multiple Formats, Widescreen, NTSC, Full Screen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 5 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ June 1, 2004
Actors ‏ : ‎ Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Spanish
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French
Producers ‏ : ‎ Brian De Palma, Chris F. Woods, Fred C. Caruso, Jon Peters, Monica Goldstein
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Warner Home Video
ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0790742446
Writers ‏ : ‎ Michael Cristofer, Tom Wolfe
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Stan Heck

A good film that needs to be re-reviewed

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2019

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It has been 28 years between viewings for me on this film. Now I was a fan of the book and hated the changes the filmmakers did but after recently reading the book on the making of this film (The Devil's Candy) I decided to view this film once again and I was surprised how much I enjoyed the film.

Now this is not a masterpiece but the film does tell the story about how "Greed" does corrupt and and how many different types of"Greed" there is. Everybody wants something from someone. The film does however alter the "Sherman" character a tad too much but at the end of the day the film works.

I hope critics will re-evaluate their opinions of this film. Since its release the film seems to have been ahead of the curb on many issues! This was an expensive film to make! The budget overruns were not the fault of the director. The studio needed to take some of the blame. However De Palma took the brunt of the negative press. The film has flaws but it is still A GOOD FILM TO SEE.

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brandon

This Bonfire Blows Smoke.

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2021

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A disaster of an adaptation. The cast includes some of the biggest stars of the day, which makes it that much more of a disappointment.

The director didn't seem to understand the source material. Writer Tom Wolfe created a true-crime story, where the facts were all tinged in shades of gray. The film removed that moral ambiguity and replaced it with something much simpler, something that is not quite serious and not quite a comedy.

Having just read the book, I was still confused by scenes in the movie - Why was the kid in a coma cheesing for the camera? This film is a mess.

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Barry

Holds up in 2018

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2018

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This is a terrific movie: thoughtful, :funny and politically incorrect. Make fun of the NY political scene, media circus vultures, social class norms, along with the justice system. What makes it most enjoyable is that although fictional, it emphasizes the bizarre NY society in sketches that seem extremely close to reality. Holds up 30 years later, since the same craziness remains today. Only criticism would be Tom Hanks as wall street mogul, but matters little to the impact of the movie.

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Carl Contrera

A movie that just gets worse with each viewing.

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2020

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Sometimes you want to re-evaluate a bad movie just because you want to see if, years later, this movie had more to give. This has less than I remembered. Tom Hanks, usually great to watch, is sadly miscast here. And a part that the late, great John Hurt was born to play went to Bruce Willis..seriously ?? Why Hitchcock disciple, Brian DePalma, was picked to direct this is beyond me when clearly it required the light, cynical touch of someone like Mike Nichols. Maybe the producers didn't get past the the first 30 pages of Wolfe's savagely funny novel while binging out on cocaine ?? After all it was made at the end of the go-go 80's.

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Bonfire smoldered but sadly the fire died out

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2018

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I took a chance that this 25 year old movie would have stood the test of time and I can report that for me it didn't. It's always a bad sign when I'm fast forwarding through chunks of the movie to see the end and even then I just didn't care how it ended, only that please make it end. This was a Brian DePalma film and he was well respected in the industry, so I thought I would be okay. I actually think part of the problem is the out of sync miscasting of the main characters. Bruce Willis a drunk big city reporter - nah, Wholesome Tom Hanks as an immoral, money hungry Wall Street bond salesman - hah, Melanie Griffith as a loosy goosy woman bordering on being a prostitute, she's close but no cigar and her characters name of "Maria", doesn't fit her either. I think so much has happened in our world since this film was made and better depictions of the corrupt side of Wall Street like The Wolf of Wall Street, it leaves Bonfires is a pile of burned out embers. One final observation and it catches me even when I watch old Cary Grant movies and that is phones. In Bonfires, the Hanks character has to walk in the rain to the corner and into a pay phone booth to call his mistress. I keep thinking that any moment, hei'll whip a smart phone out of his pocket but of course doesn't. In his day, the acerbic writing of Tom Wolfe ("Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby" - a collection of is essays) was all the rage and later "The Right Stuff" about the Mercury Seven Astronauts and test pilot Chuck Yeager has aged better I think because of all the history and daring involved w/these men). Bottom line, save your money on this movie.

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A movie so crammed filled with bad decisions, almost every scene left me scratching my ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2016

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A movie so crammed full with bad decisions, almost every scene left me scratching my head with thoughts of "Why?" and "How?" From the early scene of Bruce Willis entering as a bad-boy writer(?!?), the movie announces what a train wreck it is going to be with a "happy and upbeat" score. This should have played as a dry comedy with biting satire, but instead the musical tone is that of a light and happy 80's comedy. The movie only goes downhill from there, mostly with the casting. I could not believe for even one minute Tom Hanks as a "Master of the Universe" or Bruce Willis as a reporter, let alone a smart one. He isn't even a convincing drunk. But worse than all of this is that the movie is boring. The best thing that can be said for the film is Melanie Griffith -- she actually ads some life to the whole exercise, but how many times can she play the "I'm horny" card to take the audience's eyes off the fact that there is not a whole lot happening here? Best use of the movie is as a companion piece to Julie Solomon's book, "The Devil's Candy," about the making of the film.

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Paul S. Person

28 Years Later, It Works as Satire

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2018

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(Edited when I bought it on BD)
Had I seen this in 1990, when it came out, I might have agreed with Maltin: BOMB.
But seeing it now, it looks like a satire on various topics: race relations, sex relations, politics, greed … the list goes on.
Anyway, this is the story of a 1%-er and a very ditzy, very Southern lady who take a wrong turn and flee the scene of an accident. The case becomes what the DA bases his mayoral campaign on, and the facts don't matter.
The BD plays just fine and the film was just as funny the second time around!

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Elleppi

An underrated masterpiece

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2013

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I still can't understand, after all these years, why this film was and still is so underrated. To me is one of De Palma's masterpieces, where you can enjoy all his talents but still you breathe all the focused and cruel genius of Tom Wolfe and his best book. Not to mention that the adaptation of the book is brilliant and manges to keep the core and the best of it in a just 2 hours movie, even adding some moments that were not present in the books but sound absolutely brilliant, coherent and useful to carry on the story. Actors are funny and acting direction absolutely perfect, both in comical timing, and in the way actors approach their characters: just pathetic masks of a pathetic society. Maybe it was so attacked and badly received, at those times, because it tells you some unconvenient truth about American society and Capitalistic Establishment. Too unconvenient

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US import is NOT locked

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2016

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despite Amazon's warnings I found no problem playing this in an ordinary UK blu-ray machine

mark helsing

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 20, 2019

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Tostger58

Still one of my favorites

Reviewed in Canada on December 26, 2016

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This movie was panned by the critics but it is one of my favorites of all time. Behind the superficial silliness is a strong commentary on the dark side of human nature as people line up to sacrifice the lamb (Hanks) for personal gain. Morgan Freeman's speech to the silent courtroom (and their subsequent reaction) is the poignant moment for me.

Silke

Reviewed in Germany on January 10, 2019

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